Problems with openFd and -threaded
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Dec 3 21:28:46 CET 2010
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On 11/29/10 18:36 , Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:05 PM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org
> <mailto:wren at freegeek.org>> wrote:
>
> So I've just started playing around with STM and -threaded programs and
> I've run into a bug. The bug is similar to [1] except that the file in
> question is a Posix FIFO instead of a Bluetooth device. Same behavior:
> always errors with -threaded, but expected behavior when not -threaded
> (i.e., blocks until another process opens the other end of the FIFO).
> GHC version is 6.12.1.
>
> Isn't that pretty normal? Just retry if you get EINTR, that's what
> throwErrnoIfMinus1 and friends are for:
The problem is the interrupting signal is the timer interrupt used by the
runtime system; this should not be visible to user programs, instead the
runtime should *itself* restart the operation.
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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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